Charles Bronson has sent the five-year-old Blackhall Colliery lad a special message from prison, along with artwork.

And now through pals on the outside, the HMP Wakefield prisoner is raffling off some of his art pieces to raise funds for little Bradley’s treatment.

One of the drawings he sent to Bradley is called ‘It’s a Wonderful World’ and features a colourful snake popping its head out of the grass with a small mouse.

A picture Charles Bronson painted for Bradley Lowery

Dragonflies buzz around the snake, who has two large teeth and a forked tongue fizzing out of its mouth, and Bronson wrote the little fighter a special message.

The picture - dubbed a ‘Salvador Special’ - is signed by the artist and was then sent to his pals Daz Holdcroft and Rod Harrison, who dispatched it to little Bradley.

Charles Bronson with his dog Della while he was out from prison in 1992 (Image: Channel 5)

Daz told the Mirror: “Charlie was so touched by the story of Bradley he wanted him to know there are people fighting for him all over the world.”

In recent years, Bronson has forged a reputation as an artist and told pals he has rejected crime and is a changed man.

Some 60 raffle tickets will be sold at £20 each to raise cash for Bradley Lowery’s battle against neuroblastoma.

Bronson, who now goes by the name of Charlie Salvador, told pals he was determined to do all he could to help the bubbly primary school pupil beat the vicious disease after reading about it in the newspapers.

The notoriously violent prisoner has spent 40 years behind bars - 36 years of that in solitary confinement and he has enjoyed just four months and nine days out of prison since being first convicted in 1974.